Helen Caldicott interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3638607
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Caldicott, Helen, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2006 Jan. 19-20
- 3 digital audio tapes (ca. 156 min.)
- Summary:
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Helen Caldicott speaks briefly about her south coast beach retreat; her thoughts on both Australia and the world; the dangers of uranium mining; nuclear energy; global warming; Rupert Murdoch; the ACTU's five-year ban on uranium mining; Hawke government (1983); her work in the US from 1978-87 leading to the nuclear weapons freeze; Pat Kingsley; her high profile in America but not in Australia; the media (1990); hostility she has felt; her book entitled 'Why Men Kill'; her perception of herself; her passion for medicine; the anti-nuclear movement; being 25 years since she last practised; missing the intellectual challenges of medicine, lecturing; the lost opportunity to get rid of nuclear weapons at the end of the Cold War; the current Bush administration's production of 500 new bombs each year; the Nuclear Policy Research Institute which she has set up; the book tours planned for it here and overseas; her personal life and determination in her anti-nuclear work.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on January 19 & 20, 2006 at Bermagui, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 76 leaves) available.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Dowse, Sara, 1938-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2076 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2006
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